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Leiters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, pesident State Agri
cultural College, Athns. Ga
Protecting Georgia’s Live Stock
The advent of the boll weevil is ne
cessitating our giving greater attention
to live stock industries. That our farm
ers realize this ts shown by the fact
that Georgia is credited with the largest
increase in swine in 1915 of any state
‘in the union. In 1914 the state pos
sessed approximately 2.040.000 head of
hogs. On January 1. 1916, or there
about. the state possessed 2.346.000.
There was a difference, therefore, within
a year of 306.000 hogs, which.at maturi
*t«* should easily.be worth 110.00 per
-head, equivalent, therefore, to an in
crease of our annual wealth from this
'source alone of 13.060.000. Os course, a
part of the increase In hog production
f is attributable to the control of hog
cholera through the use of preventive
letrum. manufactured by direction of
the legislature at the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture. This serum is now
*>eing sold at 85 cents per 100 c. c..
which is an extremely low price The
state of Alabama appropriated >25.000
with which to erect a plant and is giv
ing *83.000 a year for its maintenance,
and still her farmers are paying 81.25
per 100 c. C. for serum. The same price
is charged to farmers of South Caro
lina. It will thus be seen that the farm
ers of Georgia are peculiarly fortunate
in being able to get a serum manufac
tured under the auspices and control
of the state and furnished them at the
low price indicated.
The extension workers of the State
College of Agriculture are also entitled
to some credit in the matter of con
troling the spread of hog cholera, for
they inoculated over 50.00 p head of
swine last year, and by their timely aid
and service prevented the spread of
Cholera throughout a majority of the
counties in which they work. In one
well known case a carload of hogs ship
ped into the state from Tennessee
• were apparently infected with cholera.
At least the disease broke out on a
number of farms where some of the
hogs In question had been purchased.
As soon as the disease was discovered
the county agent was on the spot and
a by advising the farmers to secure
Serum and treat his hogs promptly, ef
fectually aided in the control of the
(disease. These figures and facts are
cited to show the importance of our
- Dive stock industry, and the possibili
ties which lie before us if we develop
8t intelligently and protect our animals
properly from disease.
The aggregate of our live stock in
terests is not generally appreciated for
.the animals now owned on Georgia
'farms are easily worth 3100.0v0.000. In
1910 the state was credited in the fed
eral census with owning about 378,000,-
000 worth of live stock. Within a period
of six years, therefore, there has been
an increase in the value of live stock of
(approximately 322.000.000. and this in the
1 face of the fact that the shipment of
" |a very considerable number of mules to
£urope on • account of the war condi
< lions prevailing there has tended to re
duce not only the number but the value
•of our animals as well. Any industry
capitalized on the basis of 8100.000,000
must be‘regarded as of great importance
and concern to the welfare of any com
monwealth. and therefore, it seems well
at this time to direct attention to the
economic importance of our live stock
and to suggest ways for increasing the
wealth derived from the source and
adequately protecting our animals from
preventable disease.
' In all walks and callings expert serv
ice and advice are considered necessary
and essential. For a long time we have
seemed to believe that medical practi
tioners properly qualified to treat and
care for our animals were not essential,
but a decided change is taking place in
public sentiment with reference to this
matter. This Wrings us face to face
with the proposition of training men
within the confines of the state who will
be properly qualified to administer to
nick animals and aid in the enforcement
of laws for the control and eradication
* of contagious diseases. At the present
time there are only about fifty licensed
Veterinarians practicing In the state of
Georgia. Most of these live in towns
and cities, and there are many farmers
in the state who are more than one hun
dred miles from a competent veterinari
an. and even if they could secure his
services In time, it would be at an al
most prohibitive cost. It may thus be
said with propriety that farmers living
out in the- open country would find it
extremely difficult to secure the aid of a
competent veterinarian, and that this
condition is not likely to be remedied
until provision is made for the training
o f a very considerable number of men
in the underlying principles of veterin
ary medicine. To do this would not be
an expensive or difficult undertaking,
for -the state already possesses in the
State College of Agriculture an instltu-
» tion prepared to give a part of the
necessary training. There Is a plant with
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competent professors already available
for giving the necessary instruction In
animal and poultry husbandry, breeding
and feeding. Such supplemental work
as may be desirable in soils and chemis
try has already been provided for, and
those who desire to study a foreign lan
guage. such as French and German, can
do so. The employment of four com
petent veterinarians, and the provision
of funds needed to maintain the several
departments would enable any Georgia
boy desiring to prepare himself as a
specialist in veterinary medicine to do
so in a very acceptable manner. Since.a
part of the equipment is already avail
able the cost involved to the state need
not exceed 815.000 a year.
That some provision for instructioi
of this character should be made is evi
denced by the very considerable number
of applications received from young men
who desire to study veterinary medicine.
In view of this fact, the trustees of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture
have endeavored to meet the situation
by authorizing the establishment of the
first two years of a degree course in
veterinary medicine. This will be open
to any young man in Georgia seventeen
years of age and who is able to present
fourteen units for entrance. It is the
earnest hope of the trustees that at the
end of two years through the aid of the
state they may be able to add the junior
and senior years and thus begin the
work of training veterinanrians within
the state who are acquainted with local
conditions, in sympathy with the people
living in the open country, and who nat
urally believe in Georgia and its future
possibilities along live stock production
lines.
That this field of activity opens up a
bright future to young men will not be
questioned by any who have studied tlu*
situation. The state needs now in or
der to adequately care fcr Its live stock
a trained corps of 150 experts in veteri
nary medicine. Moreover, there are
many fields of activity open to veterina
rians besides that of the practitioner.
The I’. S. department of agriculture em
ploys a great many in the investigation
of animal diseases in meat inspection
service. Quite a number are located by
the government in each southern state
for the purpose of aiding tbe -several
commonwelaths in the fight which is now
being waged against the cattie tick.
Veterinarians are also in demand as em
ployes of the state and as investigators
of meat, milk and dairies. Many cities
also employ them as health commission
ers. They are also in demand as man
agers of ranches and stock farms, and
teachers in veterinary colleges, agricul
tural colleges and experiment stations. A
large number of veterinarians are em
ployed in the manufacture and sale of
biological products, and a number are
also sought each year as officers in the
insular service or for employment in the
quartermaster’s department of the Uni
ted States army.
There if only one Veterinary college In
the south at the present time hence we
are depending on other states, and these
chiefly situated north of the Ohio river,
for the training of our veterinarians,
and up to this time the veterinary
schools of the country have never been
able to turn out anything like enough
men to satisfy the demand. Young; men
will not make a mistake, therefore, ’.n
specializing in veterinary medicine, and
the sooner Georgia and the other south
ern states can make provision for In
struction of this character, the better it
will be for our live stock industries.
Young men with a liking for animals
and who desire to specialize in the hand
ling and treatment thereof in health and
disease should give consideration to the
oportunities which the completion of
a thorough course in veterinary medi
cine will open up to them.
• • •
DESTROYING ANTS IN A COTTON
FIELD.
F. W. Co., Loganavllle, Ga.. writes: I
would like to know what to do to atop the
ants in my cotton field. The ants hare bur
rowed holes around tbe stalks and killed a
lot of them.
Anta can be easily destroyed if you
will watch them close enough to find
out 'the source from which they come.
In ether worcs, you can trace them one’.:
to their house or nesting place. When
vou dicover this secure some carbon
bisulphide, open up the hole at the top
of the ant heap and pour a pint of this
Material into it. You should be careful
in making the hole so as to disturb the
ants as little as possible. Throw some
fresh earth over the ant heap and clamp
it down. Select a time when the ants
are likely to be at home. The carbon
bisulphide will surely kill them if prop
erly used. There is no more effect! vs
remedy with which I am acquainted.
Carbon bisulphide Is a colorless li
quid with a very offensive odor. It is
inflammable in the presence of lights.
Therefore, it should not be handled in
the vicinity of lights nor should one
smoke when using it. You should be
able to secure it from any drug store.
It is not expensive. It will not bum
the hands or injure the clothing.
• • •
PASTURE GRASSES FOR GEORGIA
FARMS.
8. 8. F., West Lake.. Ga.: 1 wish some
Information in resard to the varieties of
grass suitable for both winter and summer
l>a*ture and also grasses suitable for hay and
meadow. What is the beet kind of alfalfa
for thia country? Also what breeds of
cattle would you recommend?
Bermuda grass will probably prove
the most satisfactory for summer graz
ing in your section of the state. You
should be able to use it for this pur
pose for seven or eight months. After
you have established a good Bermuda
sod you should sow thereon bur clover.
The clover should be sown as soon as
the seed can be secured in the early sum
mer. It is well to harrow clover seed
into the ground very thoroughly. Il is
also good practice to plant some Japan
clover on pasture intended for summer
grazing. Japan clover should be seeded
early in the spring but not until all dan
ger of cold weather has passed.
When this combination is once well
established it will afford one of the be«-t
pastures you can have in south Gent gia.
Paspalum or tall water grass may
prove of some value in your section.
Orchard grass may be of some advan
tage in semi-shaded areas and red top
may be used in moist bottoms to some
advantage. White clover may also be
sown in moist bottoms with red top.
The best kind of alfalfa to cultivate is
that raised generally in this country. In
other words, we prefer the seed of that
raised in the western United fates to
that imported. Alfalfa should of course
be planted about the 15th of September
to the Ist of October in your section
of tbe state. The ground should be very
thoroughly prepared and well enriched
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1916
20 X MR AW MRS RUPERT HUGHES
(Continued from Lut Issue.)
Little miss Stafford wander
ing in a silk dinner frock through
the jungle of the everglades at
midnight did not even know that she
was lost. The terrorr. that were in store
for her she was not imagining. She
was still giggling over her imagina
tions of the excitement at Palm Beach
when her governess discovered that she
had run away. Having pinned the
gorgon’s cloth slippers to the rug,
Gloria felt sure that the governess
would tumble to the fact as soon as she
got up to take a peek at her charge.
There was excitement in plenty at
Palm Beach, even more than Gloria
dreamed, for the grown-ups knew what
Gloria did not know, how dangerous
the path of life is for a young girl
alone. All the world is treacherous
everglades to her.
Miss Sidney woke as Gloria expected,
sprawled as well as Gloria hoped, her
feet on high, and the rug waving In air.
She knew who played the trick and ran
Into Gloria’s room. She saw that the
bed was empty, the sleeping suit tossed
aside, the dinner gown gone. She flung
into her bathrobe and ran to give the
alarm to ‘Gloria’s father. Her costume
made a sensation even among the sen
sational costumes of Palm Beach. She
found Pierpont playing cards with young
Dr. Royce.
What she told them sent them run
ning in opposite directions, frightening
the dancers and the loiterers about the
tables in the gardens and various couples
with vegetable matter. Turning under
cowpeas is an excellent preparation.
Then put on two tons of crushed lime
rock. Work and harrow into the so.l
Secure about twenty pounds of alfalfa
seed per acre a»d inoculate very care
fully with cultures which you can ob
tain free of cost from the bureau of
plant industry. United States department
of agriculture, Washington, D. C., and
sow on the everting of a cloudy drfy
Broadcast the alfalfa seed and cover
with a weeder. Before seeding the al
falfa it is well t oput on 500 pounds
of acid phosphate and 300 pounds of
cotton seed meal. These materials
should be mixed, scattered over the
soil and thoroughly harrowed in a few
days before the alfalfa Is planted
There is no one best breed of live
stock in Georgia. You will not make a
mistake in securing good animals from
either the Shorthorn or Hereford breeds.
• • •
FLANKING LAND AFTER THE
flood.
W. H. F., Rome, Ga., writes: On ac
count of the continued rains, my corn is
all under water and likely ff> remain so for
several days. Most of the corn is knee
high. Will the corn live? If not. can you
suggest a variety that will make planted
at this season? If not, please suggest
something else for me to plant. The land is
very rich creek bottom.
Corn that has been subjected to pro
longed overflow for several days will
almost certainly die when the water
goes down. The chances are that it has
soured, and in that event It will do no
good. We suggest that you try re
planting the corn as you should be able
to secure varieties which will mature
in 100 to 120 days. Hickory king, Cocke’s
prolific and other prolific types will
probably be the sorts to use. Some of
the northern grown varieties, if seed
can be obtained, will answer very well
for they are accustomed to maturing
in a much shorter season than we have
here in Georgia. Probably your local
seedsman can supply you with seed or
could rush an order through for you
from some firm handling seed produced
in the Piedmont region of Virginia, or
in Wisconsin or Minnesota.
Next to the early maturing varlties
of corn which we would certainly try
on a part of the land, we suggest that
you grow sorghum. Early amber is
probably one of the best varieties tJ
use for this purpose. We believe It
is practical to sow cowpeas during this
month and have them mature with con
siderable degree of satisfaction on rich
bottom lands of the character you de
scribe. Falling with any or all of
these we would try some sudan grass
on a part of the land and German millet
or Hungarian grass on another section.
There is no doubt but that millet will
do well on land such as you describe and
you can certainly get one cutting, and
possibly in a good season, a second cut
ting.
These are about the best suggestions
we can offer as to the character of crops
which you should endeavor to plant
on flooded areas. Os course, it is im
portant that replanting be done as soon
as possible, and it is more important
that early planting be followed with
the first crops mentioned than it is
with millet which could probably be
seeded In this climate as late as the
middle of August to the first of Septem
ber and make one good crop of hay If
seasonal conditions were at all favor
able.
• • •
MERIT AND QUALITY OF BREEDS
OF HOGS.
A. B. D.. Hemp. v«-. writes: Please
dtacuM the leading breeds of hogs for the
south, giving tbe good and undesirable qual
ities of each breed. Also state which one
would be the best for this section.
There are several breeds of hogs well
adapted to Georgia conditions. Among
those most widely distributed and bet
ter known on that account are the Berk
shires, Poland China, Tamworth, Duroc-
Jersey and Hampshire. Os course, oth
er breeds have been introduced and
quite widely disseminated, but these may
properly be regarded as the main or
standard breeds. The Berkshire is well
known to hog raisers. They are com
pact animals, well fleshed, but not un
duly fat. They are very good grazers
and well adapted to Georgia conditions,
but they would not be considered as
prolific as some other breeds. They
make excellent hams and bacon.
The Poland-China is a hog which lays
on flesh more readily than the Berk
shire. It is a good general purpose
breed, fairly prolific and has done quite
well under Georgia conditions. This
hog was developed originally in the corn
belt, where they had a superabundance
of cheap corn. The Tamworth is some
times known as the English bacon
breed. These hogs are remarkably long
and deep through the side. They pro
duce a very fine quality of hams and
bacon. They are red in color and good
grazers. Some people do not like them
because of their long noses. They are
a prolific breed and have done well in
Georgia.
The Duroc-Jersey is appreciated by
many, not only because of the ease with
which they fatten and their wide adapt
ability to all soli and climate condi
tions. They are prolific and have been
raised with profit and success on hun
dreds of Georgia farms.
The Hampshire or thin rind hog has
a characteristic band of white around
the fore part of the body. This breed
is being more widely disseminated each
year and those who have raised them
speak highly of them. They seem to
be fairly well adapted to Georgia con
ditions and will no doubt be more widely
distributed in the not distant future.
I am inclined to think that you would
not make a mistake in purchasing good
specimens of any of these breeds. I
think there is as much in the manage
ment accorded them as in the breed.
surprised in loving embrace among the
Inviting nooks.
On the lawn the two men came to
gether again and shook their heads in
signal of failure. They saw David and
Lois. David mentioned the loss of his
automobile. Neither he nor Pierpont
thought of Gloria as the thief. They
continued the search among the cran
nies of the enormous hotel and among
the cottages of their friends.
But Dr. Royce had been speaking of
Gloria’s rebellious neart only that aft
ernoon. He ran at once to a parking
space where automobiles were kept. The
chauffeurs were not about and he did
not pause to haggle. He threw away a
’’For Hire" card and, leaping into the
saddle, so to speak, of a six-cylinder
thoroughbred, dug his spurs into its
side and plied the lash.
The car broke into such a run that
its own chauffeur did not recognize it
as it shot into the main road. Royce
checked his speed only when he met
occasional saunterers along the roads.
From most of these he got no informa
tion. From one negro on a bicycle chair
he had the comforting answer:
•Yassa, I done seen a bar'haided young
tnissy in a auterbile going Hcketty split
—-yassa. She turned sothe at the next
cornder. If I hadn’t a throwed this
year wheel over miffhty peart I’d a— ’’
Ro’yce was not Interested in the ne
gro’s might mave beens. He was al
ready at the next corner, and he turned
south, too. H had no interest in the
beauty of the foliage, or in the moon
lit sky, or in the quiet sea alongside.
His eyes were probing the distance
ahead. He spoke to the car as if It
were a horse, and perhaps he swore at
it. At any rate, a few people cross
ing the road later sniffed a curious
mixture of gasoline and brimstone.
Now and then a red light ahead
cheered Royce on, but when he over
took it it was never on the car that
carried Gloria. He overtook and passed
everything. There was not much to
overtake in that lone road at that hour.
In one or two of the villages he found
some one awake who had seen a young
girl or a comet shoot through. He
pushed on and on, driving as fast as
possible and trying to drive a little fas
ter.
After miles on miles of exceeding ev
ery speed limit except that of his en
gine he began to fear that he had come
on a wild goose chase —where the wild
goose was not known. He knew that
people are usually ready to tell a
roadside lie and say that they have
seen anything that any wayfarer asks
if they have seen. Probably Gloria had
not come this way at all.
He had about decided to turn back
and endure the laughter that would
greet him. Long ago, no doubt, Glo
ria had reappeared and been resen
tenced to bed.
•But even aq he slowed up for the
turn, he caught sight of tire tracks
swerving wildly and turning off into the
sand between two dunes. He shut off
his power and set his brakes, drew
into the side of the road and jumped
out.
He passed the barrier of the flunks
and caught sight of David's racing car
in the waves. The billows flaming
with moonlight were sweeping over the
little machine with terrifying ruthless
ness, now tossing up spray which the
moon turned to jewelry, now smother
ing it all from view,.
Royce gazed aghast. He tore his
hair at the vision. He could almost
see Gloria caught ii) the wheel and held
fast while she drowned slowly, chok
ingly.
He was about to dash into the sea
and fight it for the body of the little
runaway when he saw footprints in
the wet sand. Robinson Crusoe could
not have felt so wild a thrill of joy.
Dr. Royce did not see the marks of a
black man’s sole; he saw the tiny Im
press of slippers. They were like ex
clamation marks and the toes were
pointing away from the water.
With a cry of relief Dr. Royce
followed them across the sand to
the highway. But Gloria had not
turned north in the road. She had
been wooed into the dense, lush foliage.
The doctor regarded it with dread. He
could not imagine how tempting it had
been to Gloria’s truant heart. He was
afraid that she might have* lost her
mind with fear.
He had hardly plunged into the
thicket when he lost trace of her. Dense
shadows alternated with patches of al
most noontime light. He found a clew
again, lost it again. He sprang aside
from a dry, whirring coil that was a
rattlesnake. He tripped on a snakelike
vine and dived through bushes. He fear
ed at any moment that he might come
across Gloria dead or dying. He called
and called, then paused to listen. He
had no answer. At last, however, he
heard a faint cloppety-clop of hoofs on
the road.
He ran back, hoping that he might
find some courier with news. Instead he
met a boy from a pineapple plantation.
Royce hailed him and learned that he
was going for a doctor. He had heard
and seen exactly nothing of Gloria. He
stared at Royce with uneasiness. The
doctor was indeed a suspicious looking
object. His evening dress had recorded
every sprawl in the sand and mud and
most of the brambles that he had
passed. But he was not crazy, though
he looked it. He was not crazy enough
to think that he could find Gloria in the
everglades without help.
He knew the history of that vast
maze, so inhospitable to alPsave the In
dians that only two or three white men
have ever crossed its 8,000 square miles
of pathless waste. Those who have gone
in to search for others have usually had
to be searched for themselves.
If Royce had not known this the boy
would have told him, for when Royce
asked him to get down and help in the
search for Gloria the boy shook his head
with emphasis:
“Ump-umm, mister! Not me! Folks
that gits lost back m yonder stays lost
for keeps.”
This did not for a moment .tempt
Royce to give up. He was about to let
the boy go when it occurred to him that
Gloria’s father would be frantic for
some word of her whereabouts. He
found a prescription pad in his pocket
and a bit of pencil and he wrote a note.
Pierpont Stafford, Royal Poinciana: I
found Gloria’s car in the surf and her
footprints leading into the everglades.
I am following them, but think you
had better organize searching parties
to beat the whole district.
STEPHEN ROYCE.
He gave this to the boy and a bill
from the small roll he found in his
pockets. He made the boy promise to go
to the nearest telephone and transmit
the message to the hotel. He also asked
the boy to explain to Mr. Stafford where
"here” was. Royce had no idea himself.
The boy told him: "We-all are abote
half ways between Pompano and Colo
hatchee.”
Royce’s face did not brighten at this
and the boy with contempt for such
Ignorance explained that it wm "goin’
on forty mile sothe of Palm Beach."
He promised to deliver Royce’s mes
sage and also to give the alarm among
the nearest villages. Then he rode away
and Royce returned again to the chase.
Increasingly anpalled at the thought of
Gloria alone there.
Now and then he found some hit of
her, a shred of silk from her Paris
frock torn away by a clutching thorn.
He found even a loop of vine where she
WsliOHE
ABE YOU SUBE AS TO WHO SPBEADS
CONTAGION?
Some of our wise medical experts are
locating tuberculosis germs in the wash
er woman’s homes. They think it would
be money well invested to investigate
the colored washer woman's homes, etc.
Maybe so, but it is a well investigated
fact, that a great many tuberculosis
victims send out clothes to washer wom
en to be washed and it might be that
the darkey came in actual and
vicious contact with tuberculosis germs
in some such way. Don’t you see? It
is a poor rule that does not work both
ways.
Away back in the middle of the nine
teenth century I had acquaintance with
a family, solely afflicted with "galloping
consumption." Six grown people died
within much less than six years. The
family owned negro slaves and at least
six of these slaves, mostly nurses, wash
erwomen, etc., died with the same "gal
loping consumption." It was freely
ly talked that the negro slaves caught
the disease from the white owners.
How is that for high?
Some one discussing the spread of
this disease has said germs can lodge
in the whiskers of the rich man as well
as under the finger nails of the unwash
ed laborer and the given theory is a
very broad and comprehensive theory,
so to speak. If germs are so verile
that they lodge in drinking cups in
white passenger cars and in the general
communion cup in white churches, it
would seem reasonable that the colored
washerwoman might catch the germs
that harbor in the flannels and hand
kerchiefs of their patrons.
TABEBNACLE MEETING IN CAB
TEBSVILLE.
As a matter of information to persons
who desire to enjoy a short vacation
or an outing in the mountains, I will
notify such persons that the tabernacle
meeting in Sam Jones Tabernacle will
begin on August 4 and cover ten days
of religious services thereafter.
It is a capacious tabernacle and easily
seats 7,000 persons. I have in times
past seen 10,000 in the enclosure, around
the scats and in the aisles, and an esti
mated crowd of 20,000 persons on the
grounds a few times.
A son of "Gypsy” Smith, the English
evangelist, will conduct the meeting.
He held a very successful meeting in
Macon, Ga., last year.
Cartersville has always been able to
handle the tabernacle crowds, and it is
reasonable to suppose there will be no
difficulty or hindrance this year.
TAKE A BEST, DEAB LADIES!
Very often I hear the remark, "He (or
she) has gone to the sanitarium be
cause of nervous prostration/' This dis
ease has become a fashionable ailment,
and it represents a whole lot of other
ailments, but taking a rest can be had
in a quiet room at home, where the
rates will be less expensive and where
ready cash is often wanting in the
family of the invalid.
Tired housekeepers do not often seek
a rest cure, but that does not signify
that they would not be better off if they
did go to bed and stay there until they
were really rested.
With my many years of experience, I
am convinced every family should have
a rest room, well furnished and set
apart for the ailing ones, where nobody
will dare to enter unless permission is
granted.
I heard of a most active woman in
London charities who explained her
health system by saying she took one
day in every week to lie in bed, stretch
out her limbs and read an interesting
•book. She was not at home to any
visitor, and no outside call was allowed
to be brought to her notice.
Next day she would rise rested and
vigorous and able to do what was re
quired of her.
Aged people must lie down a great
deal. Whether they sleep or only rest
their tired limbs is not a debatable
question at all. It is a prime necessity.
Nature's recuperative forces are
weakened with advancing years. The
vital forces are more languid and long
lived people are people who take life
easy in the great majority of cases. And
all busy people should always get a
few minutes of repose during the day.
There is a vast difference between
tired folks and lazy folks, but want
of rest will make the best of people
Irritable and unhappy.
Little children can be taught to sleep
regularly and children are generally
good who sleep often and sleep a
great deal.
This thing of taking a rest means
a great deal more ..,an appears on the
first mention of it.
CAN YOU HELF HEB?
Peters Creek, Va., July, 1916.
Dear Mrs. Felton: I am a reader of
your paper, and have come to you for
a little help. Please help me to find my
aunt Tempsy Floyd, who married John
Meyers and left Virginia and went to
Indiana. Would like to hear from any
of her children or grandchildren. Anv
information of her will be greatly ap
preciated..
With love and best wishes to you.
SUSIE BEASLEY.
WHEAT TAKES BIG JUMP
ON REPORT OF DAMAGE
Black Rust in Manitoba Sends
Price Up 4 1-2 Cents
in Chicago
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, August 2. —Jumps of more
than 4 1-2 cents a bushel in the value
of wheat took place today as a result
of word that black rust damage in
Manitoba amounted to a calamity and
that the injury to the crop in the Da
kotas and Minnesota was increasing
Estimates were current that the pros
pective yield of wheat in the United
States had fallen off 87,000,000 bushels,
as compared with the outlook on
Buying here was on a broad scale and
included much purchasing for European
account. Before midday September had
risen to 1.28 3-4 as against 1.24 1-8-e
1.241-4 at yesterday’s close.
Advances in price became sensational
in extent in the trading later. The chief
reason was that black rust was said to
have spread in Canada and to be dan
gerously thretening in Saskatchewan
after having wrought havoc in Manitoba.
September wheat here finally touched
81.31 3-8, a clear ascent of 7 l-B@7 l-4c
above yesterday's finish and closed at
>1.30 5-8, a gain during the session of
6 3-B@6 l-2c a bushel.
had loitered. He was puzzled by the
curious sequence of her slipper marks
till he realized that she must have
paused to swing like a carefree child.
This gave him a little comfort. At least
she was not afraid. He understood the
very whim of hers that made a holiday
of the flight.
Thus far he had followed her through
the Illumination of the moon and the
glowing dawn. But the broad daylight
did not bring him the help he counted
on. It merely emphasized the confu
sion of the labyrinth.
(Continued in Next Issue.)
Our
Household
THOSE COMFORT POWDEBS.
When I started to Japan a friend
slipped a little box in my traveling bag
and when I was out on the ocean I found
it. There is no language adequate to
express the help those "Comfort Pow
ders” were to a great many people. There
I was on a boat one among a thousand
people, going to a foreign land thousands
of miles away from my mother and sis
ter and you may be sure that when I
opened the little box and read the first
“powder" I was glad that Miss Ellen’s
heart prompted her to put them in.
Neatly rolled in tissue paper was each
powder and on the top of the box were
the directions, "Helpful in cases of dis
couragement, loss of patience, discon
tentment, disappointments, heart
troubles, etc.
"Take one powder each morning or
as*often as needful; thoroughly mixed
with equal parts of confidence and
thanksgiving. Prepared from the medi
cine chest of the great physician." The
first "powder" I opened road, “The
Lord bless thee and keep the; the Lord
make his face to shine upon thee. The
Lord lift up his countenance upon thee
and give thee peace.”
Could anything have been better? It
certainly eased my heartache and re
newed my courage.
At odd times I’ve slipped a "powder"
into the handbag of some girl or en
closed one in a letter and now I've only
four. And I am going to give them,
in one dose, to you my readers, for there
came over me this morning a sort of
feeling that this must be a comfort
prescription. One cannot pick up any
paper without reading of sadness at
home and abroad. Battles, murders and
sudden deaths have been the tilings that
have filled the papers, and we should
every day of our lives thank God for
a president of this country levfel-head
ed and with the sort of wisdom that
only God can give, or we too would be
in it.
In a certain way we have been fat
tening or filling our pocketbooks by
the necessities of those people. It has
been right for us to sell them wheat and
cotton and such things, but it would
have been more like a Christian nation
to have been honest with God and to
have turned back to- Poland, Belgium
and the war-orphans the tenth of our
receipts. ,It was not ours. One-tenth
is all that God asks any of us to give
him and if we do not give it to him many
things are going to be permitted. How
do we know that these unusual floods,
and these crtlls from our own starving
people are not reminders of what we
owe God?
"Sorrows humanize the race," sang
that sweet singer Jean Ingelow, and
until things are brought home to us
many of us fail to realize want and
suffering as actual facts.
America wastes enough to feed and
clothe Belgium. When I was in tho
city and worked among the so-called
poor I often said that some of the peo
ple we tried to help wasted enough
to feed themselves. There were often
loaves of bread in the trash —“too stale
to eat" was the excuse. But you never
see anything like that in any foreign
home. Stale bread can be soakod in
milk, or even in water and converted
into a palatable dish. And in the coun
try the waste is prodigious. Wood,|
grains, vegetables, fertilizer, even the
strength of the people, and these so-call
ed “calamities” may be God’s way of
calling a halt. One of my "powders”;
reads thus:
“Our light affliction, which is tuf
for a moment, worketh for us a far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory."
And we must confess that even as we
look over what a month ago were beau
tiful crops and see only yellowed stalks
we can left up songs of praise because
no enemy,hath done it. The harvests
of France are being gathered by Ger
mans, and the ruthless destruction tha;
once marked a certain man’s path to the
sea in our own southland is duplicated
over whole countries across the water..
Tenants and small land owners are mov
ing to the cities, and this government!
is supplying food and shelter to
But our treasury is full and the war
with Mexico averted, so there are two
things to be thankful for and our as
flictions truly are but “for a moment”
when we compare them with the empty
homes and blood sorfked soil of France,
Belgium. Poland and parts of Turkey |
Another powder is. “All things, whatso-'
ever ye shall ask in prayer, believing,
ye shall receive.”
“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and
He shall sustain thee.”
Even though we have robbed him of.
his tenth and have bragged about the |
great things that we have done; even
though many of us have claimed all
the credit, and have never once thanked i
God for his help, we may yet take this
"powder” and find a cure for disap
pointment, "For the Lord will not cast
off forever; but though he cause grief,
yet will he' have compassion according
to the multitude of his mercies, ami,
as Julian K. Smyth says, "The truest
faith is that which not only rests in
the Lord, but which wails patiently for
him. Though good be far off, though it
be quite invisible, still it will not be
turned aside, or cast down, but will
both hope and quietly wait for the sal
vation of God." And "quietly waiting"
does not mean that we must lose cour
age. Think how many times God has
said “Be strong, be of good courage, ’
and has sent the sluggard to the ant,
that wise folk that lay in supplies in
season, and out. We must not get
scared and cut down our help. W-.t
should live as economically as possible,
wear cheaper clothes, and have only
substantial food on our tables if there
is need for our retrenchment. But let
us remember that the truest way to
help another is to give work and pay
living wages.
True charity in helping one save
one’s self-respect as well as in fur
nishing food and raiment, and that can
be done by making work for those in
need of it. Now look about you and
see how you may help God. For all of
us, the very poorest has some such
mission. Not one of us liveth for self
alone. W’hether we intend it or not we
are helping or hindering the world,
“Nor knoweth thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor’s creed has
lent—
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.”
Faithfully Yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
Tuscumbia, Ala.
GOOD ADVICE.
Dear Mrs. Thomas and Household: I
have wanted to write to The Journal
for a long time. I feel like I am one
of you. I received and lost my beau
tiful Journal badge. I love The Jour
nal because Mrs. Thomas and Mrs.
Felton are :i part of it. I used to save
all of Mr. Loring Brown’s pieces on
•hickens. And made me a large scrap
v, nok of them, and the clippings from
"Chat on Chickens" takes me as a letter ,
from my old home.
Yes, I am a "chicken crank” and
everything Mrs. Thomas says I try to
do it for my flock the Reds,
two hens and- -jester, which I got last
spring tier. I named them, (as I
keep all my flock named? Beauty. Qllie
and Lizzie for Mrs. Thomas. They are
sure fine, and now I have some fine
young ones. But enough for that.
I want to say to the young girl seek
ing advice as to what she must do,
marry a drunkard or a man who must
take care of his mother and sister: You
stay where you are unless you have the
patience of Job. If you haven’t, you
would never stand the test of either. \
The drunkard would help you raise
some little drunkards, and the other
would be greatly worried, trying to
keep peace between you and his mother
and sisters. Stick to the boy and stay
at home until the Lord clears the way.
Love to all..
Bussey. Ga. MRS. R. J. FLEMING.
ANOTHEB TEACHES.
Dear Household: Will you admit* a
Tennessee girl in your happy band?
I had just read Marianne’s letter. I
am a teacher and know something of
the hardships and pleasures of a teach
er’s life. I, too, have had some experi
ences almost as bad as hers. One year
year I taught a while in an old school
house and we made the. seats ourselves.
Later we moved them into an old store
house and taught there. Last -year I
taught in a pretty little house and will
have a nice house this year. My school
begins next Monday. I have to leave
home but I will be about ten miles from
home. Marianne write me. I would
like so much to correspond with you.
I have been canning berries and
rhubard this week. As my letter is
getting rather lengthy I would better
bring this to a close.
Yours very Wuly,
BELLE HINSON.
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